A long time you took a test and you are tracked into that. You dont want a system where your future is determined for you buy a test. We want one where you have an interest or ability to do something, that takes you away from a traditional college, you should be able to do that. We see that within school choice. There are scarred Charter Schools where he can learn everything right down to underwater welding, which i dont have any experience with, but i understand it is pretty lucrative. You can get lots of valuable skills. Skills that cannot be easily outsourced. There is Something Else important which is that we have a lot of money going into Higher Education. By all indications, it is not translating into more learning. There is inflation the arms race and amenities and buildings. I think it is hard to make the argument we need more money. Maybe we needed better targeted. We need to allow people to choose what they think is best for them even before college. I agree with all of that.
I entered the dim, original-wood-arched narthex or entrance behind a little boy with two blue budgies. In the plush-red-carpeted interior, glowing with a softly lit warmth and quiet but bustling activity on the polished pews, were rabbits, hamsters, a sleeping hedgehog in a lovely velvet pouch, and well-groomed little dogs with pretty bows above their brows, all amazingly well-behaved. As we shuffled up the aisle, past the gleaming fishbowls and little rhinestone-collared kittens, I know that the regular church members and volunteers who cleaned the place were whispering: “Here comes that farmer Anny Scoones with her bunch of dirty hairy mutts” and I cannot deny that this was the case.